Hungry owners of an iPhone or iPod will be glad to learn that they can eat rice once more! Rice Master II has been released, a game based on Hyper Somen, from Konami's Games Collection Special. In this addictive game, the player grabs rice sliding down from two slides.
Last weekend at RetroMadrid 2010, the MSX Cartridge Shop released two new cartridges: Bomb Jack (Kralizec) and Stray Cat (Imanok). Bomb Jack includes a demo mode and some optimizations from the MSX2 disk version, while Stray Cat includes two new stages added to the original MSXDev'09 version. Both cartridges can be already ordered from the MSX Cartridge Shop website and cost €18 each.
A few days ago, the AAMSX website was updated with the definitive date for the next 37th MSX users meeting in Barcelona: June the 19th. If you wish to have a booth during this event, you can now reserve one. More information about this on the AAMSX website.
Palette Editor 1.3
BiFi released an update of Palette Editor, a ROM image allowing you to change the default palette on MSX2 and up before booting a cartridge.
After a few months of silence, Brazilian map maker only_69 strikes back with a new bag full o' game maps! A great resource to assist you in finishing a game, and a great resource for game developers to see how games are designed.
Scene.org, a large website providing a platform for demos (or electronic art, as they call it) all around the globe, has nominated five oldschool demos from 2009 for their annual scene.org awards.
Carlos Maidana's site dedicated to MSX is back online with a new blog layout focused on hardware and software projects for MSX. To celebrate this rebirth, two brand new articles have been published. The first one is about a memory upgrade from 128kB to 512kB for a Talent TPC-310 -an MSX2 computer- suitable for any other MSX computer with the S1985 engine.
fMSX PSP 3.5.41
A new version of fMSX-PSP has been released. Being a minor update, the only new feature in this version is a fixed button for the US/JP switch, so that it will now correctly initialize at startup. But, alas, for some people such a feature is the difference between night and day, so let's cherish it.
This weekend, while some MSX nerds were seen sitting at their desk discussing IotZM sprites, El Viejo Archivero and his team were at the succesful retro fair
